they have granted a licence to HN (and YC-affiliated companies), not anyone else. It's that licence that permits HN, and HN only, to send users' content to your browser
replySo if someone uses a VPN to access Hacker News, the VPN is infringing copyright?
replyTransient copies of user data, in traffic, memory or caches, are protected by the copyright law, so there is no infringing.
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